The Featured Speaker of the
2010 Fort Atkinson Regional Science Fair is
Dr. Mary Linton

Mary Linton is an ecologist and wetland biologist from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.  She studies the amphibians, turtles and insects of wetlands.  The population biology of ephemeral wetlands, or wetlands that dry in late summer or fall then refill in fall or spring, is her particular passion. There are very few things she loves more than a day mucking about in a rich wetland.

Dr. Linton taught college biology for 20 years before starting her own company to train others to understand and monitor aquatic resources. Her ecological articles have appeared in Evolution, Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Canadian Entomology, Herpetological Review, American Naturalist, and the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences, as well as popular magazines. Her poetry has appeared in Appalachia, Aethlon, Blueline, Builder, Country Feedback Magazine, Poetry Motel, and Seeding the Snow.

Prior Honorees and Speakers

1991 Art Waterman
1992 Albert Haller
1993 Richard Wanie
1994 Anne Griffiths, M.D.
1995 William David James
1996 Frank Haban
1997 Capt. Wilbur Sundt
1998 Dr. James & Sophia Majerus
1999 William D. Knox
2000 Paul Raasoch
2001 Leland Allenstein, DVM
2002 Helmut Ajango
2003 Dr. Kenneth Griffiths
2004 Gary Reuterskiold
2005 Frank & Shirley Stekel
2006 Dr. Russel Nord
2007 Dr. Fred Rose
2008 Richard Wanie
2009 Dr. Bob Benjamin